ABSTRACT
It is clear that Richard Swinburne's account of human freedom is the corner stone of his defence of hell. Swinburne's account of shaping character and thereby choosing final destinies involves a point at which one has made one's decision and is no longer able to change it. Swinburne makes several unorthodox claims about hell, the most significant being that hell is a result of the free choice of the individual. Swinburne rejects the idea of hell as eternal physical punishment. He claims instead that hell is the state of being separated from God. Swinburne cannot affirm that there will not be a contingent universalism, even though he seems sure that there will not be a universalist outcome. Swinburne believes that God has a universal salvific will, and yet claims that this will not bring about the ultimate salvation of all.
